All Government organisations should have a plan to shift to a network that supports new version of internet addresses, IPv6, by 2017-end, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said.
“By 2017, we should we should be smart knowledge society. We will use IPv6 for rural emergency healthcare, tele-education, smart-metering, smartgrid, smart-building, smart-cities which has tremendous potential for socio-economic development of this country,” Sibal said while unveiling the roadmap.
The Government has started issuing IPv6 address following shortage of previous version of internet address, IPv4. PNS